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PICTURE EXHIBITOR.

No. 281,143. Patented July 10, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

.MORRIS SOHLEISSNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE-EXHIBITOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,143, dated July 10, 1883, Application filed September 21, 1882. (hlodehl To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MORRIS SOHLEISSNER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Picture-EX- hibitor, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of pictureexhibitors wherein the pictures may be kept under lock and key, and thus be entirely excluded from dust and handling, and may be exhibited upon the revolution of the case.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate cor responding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of my new and improved picture case or album partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional. elevation of the same, showing the manner of placing the picture-holding frame in the case. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the picture-holding frames. Fig. 4 is a.- detailed sectional elevation, showing the means of attaching the side bars of the frame or stand to the trunnions. Fig. 5 is a partial section and side view of the same parts and of a portion of the revolving case, the seotionbeing taken at right angles to the section shown in Fig. 4.

A isa case, of suitable size, made of some ornamental wood, and having the glassback a and This case is supported by and pivoted between the side pieces, B B, and is adapted to be revolved upon the trunnions c c for bringing the pictures heldin the pictureframes C, and placed in the case successively into view at the front and back of the case. The picture-frames Gare made preferably of double thicknesses of heavy papcr,like the leaves of an ordinary bookform photograph-album, with slotted face-sheets for the insertion of the pictures back to back, and are provided at their ends with the bars (Z d, which are beveled off at their ends, as shown at 1'- 1. Th ese frames con corresponding frames above, and the odd frame will, by virtue of its gravity, be in the lowest tier, and all of the frames, by virtue of the slight inclination at which the case stands, (it being purposely so pivoted,) will always, when the case is at rest, be supported upon that side of the case which happensto be facing downward. Now,upon giving the case from the position of rest a one-half revolution forward in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2, the weight of the pictures and frames will first be transferred to the other side of the case, and the odd-number tier of frames will be carried uppermost, leaving an unsupported odd frame in front, which will slide down to the lowermost tier, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2, revealing to view the pic ture behind it. Upon the next half revolution of the case this action of the frames will be repeated, bringing the frame 0 at the back of the lowest 0dd-nu1nber tier uppermost and in front, where it will be unsupported, and will slide to the lowest tier, uncovering the picture next behind it; and this action will be repeated at each half-revolution of the case, and in this manner, upon continuing the intermittent revolution of the case, all of the pictures in the case will be in succession brought to view. the frames from the upper to the lower part of the case is facilitated by the beveling of the ends of the bars (I d.

The stand in which the case A is supported, is by preference made so that it may be folded, so that thc whole, when not in use, may occupy small space, and for this purpose the side pieces, B B, are beveled at their ends, as shown, and are secured by the screws or bolts 0 e to the heads ff of the trunnions c c, and are cut out at their upper beveled ends, as shown at e c, to surround or permit the passage of said trunnions, as shown in Fig. 4. The trunnions c c are longer than the thickness of the said pieces B B, and reach into the eye-plates g g,secured to the sides of the frame A, which eye-plates form the journals for the trunnions. The side pieces, B B, are tied together by the cross-bars B B, as shown in the drawings, which crossbars hold the side pieces the proper distance apart to permit the free rotation of the case A, and to properly hold the inner ends of the trunnions in the cye-platcs g g, as will be understood from Fig. 1.

The case A is provided with a loclnu'hcreby The sliding of' the lid 12 may be secured when closed, so that l the pictures cannot be handled or stolen, and so that no dust can enter the case and soil the pictures.

I am aware that it is not new to employ oddnumbered tiers of picture-holding cards, arranged in a rotatable case with a shifting partition, in order to support the upper tier of cards and to cause the transference of the cards from one tier to the other tier, to effect the operation of displaying the same, and that it is not new to employ tiers of picture-holding frames with a fixed separating-partition between them, said cards being adapted to be shifted from one tier to the other by mechanical contrivance.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. In a picture-exhibitor, the combination,

Q SL143 with the case A, of the upper and lower tiers of picture-holding frames 0, with the end bars, d, 20 of one tier supported by the end bars, (Z, of the other tier, the upper andlower tiers of frames being adapted to shiftpositions with each other as the case is revolved, substantially as set forth.

2. In a picture-exhibitor, the combination, 25 with case A, having the eye-plates or journals of the folding supports B, and the plates f, provided with the screws e,which connect the plates to, and serve as pivots for, the legs of the supports, and with the trunnions 0, upon 0 which the case revolves, substantially as set forth.

MORRIS SCHLEISSNER. Witnesses:

H, A. WEsT, O. SEDGwIcK. 

